Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-05-19

Earth City; j. w. W. Poison, Hancock.
Increase-C. l.. Webber, Walnut Grove; d.
Paul, Etna; A. Gardner. Window; /. Hall,
Green Prairie; q. Hadden, Auburn; w. IL.
Helsper, Freeport. Dakota-E. A. Kent,
k~siness. Inerease-A. L. Thayer, Feeder.
g.. Sandberg, odell; J.. Meyer, Colfax;
l. Z. Wood, Springfield, Postmasters
Commissioned-Dakota: New Salem, l..
+. NohL.
Thos. H. Sherman, for 81, 500 a piece OF
property GA Meridian HilL fronting 75
feet On Sixteenth street and $50 feet on
Huron street.
The total number OF persons konvrn to
have persisted in the mine disaster at
Nanaimo. Il. C., is I69, Of whom SO were
Chinese and 107 whites More than half
OF the white men leave families. The
dominion government is to be asked by
the members from British Columbia for a
grant towards relieving the wives and lam
HES OF the miners killed.
James w. Hyatt OF Connecticut may
possibly succeed Treasurer Jordan.
The mystery surrounding the shooting OF
Mrs. Tarbeli near Elkhorn, Wis, has been
cleared up by the confession OF Tarbell,
who broke down completely while in jail
and made a clean breast OF the crime.
He say she deliberately shot his wife in
the head.
The number OF victims at Nanaimo, b.
c., Is placed at 1S9.
At Highmore, Oak, Andsrs Olsen, q
Norwegian farmer, was jailed on a charge
OF poisoning his wife, who was found dead
in bed.
T. j. Potter began his railroad career as
station agent at Abba, Iowa, at n salary
OF $50 a month. When he resigned from
the Burlington he was in receipt OF 50. 500
a month, and on the Union Pacific will re-
ceive the highest salary OF any general
manager in the United States. Per contra,
a certain Chicago railway official, who five
years ago was receiving a salary OF 50. 600
a year. three months ago accepted a place
in q railway Office al Chicago at $50 o
month.
Paul Grottkau. the anarchist, who made
ineen,iiary speeches at Milwaukee Garden
last May, was sentenced to ono year at
hard labor in the house of correction by
Judge Sloan. Grottkau viii be held at the
county jail for a week in order to allow
his attorney to appeal to the supreme
court for a new trial on writ OF error. At
the end OF that time be will be taken to
the house OF correctioni il the supreme court
does not grant a stay OF proceedings
The controller of the currency authoriI.
ed the Western National Bank OF the City
| OF New York to begin business with a capt.
tai of So. 500, 900. The officers are: Dan
lei Manning, president, and Ferdinand
Blankinham, cashier.
John Flynn OF Marquette has been shut
up in a house for twenty years.
All four OF the McCoys who killed DR..
Northrup at Haverhill, Ohio. have been
indicted for murder in the first degree.
Large forest fires are raging on the line
Of the South Shore railroad. In Michigan
great damage il feared. 4 very dry and
strong wind prevails. Rock River village
is meuaeed with destruction. Thousands
OF cords Of wood have been destroyed.
The convention OF the Reading employ.
es, representing fifty Knights OF Labor as.
semblies between Philadelphia and tho
coal regions, refused to endorse the strike
in the coal regions proposed by the Miners
and Laborers' Amalgamated association
At Omaha, Neb., William A. Holdschni.
der OF Harlan. Iowa, was found dead in
g with his throat cut. He left a note
stating the cause OF suicide to be that he
was driven from home by his wife, who
took up with another man.
Robert Garrett of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad company, Is the most elegantly
dressed man in that corporation
Col. George waring OF Newport, r. l., has
gone to san Diego, CAL, to take charge OF
the costly system OF city improvements
there.
Postofiee discontinued. Wisconsin: Man
itowoc Rapids, Manitowoe county. Post
masters Observation-Disclosures: New
Rome, G. Knapp. Fourth-class post
masters Observation-Disclosures Beef
Slough. G. Scott; Belleville, A.. Peterson;
Camp Lake, ]. II. MeNey; Cochrane. J. Rob.
rer; Kolb, p. KoIb; Manning Benson; Pos
kin, c. Larson; Whitley, II. W. Eldridge; Bob
Creek, A. Muller; Bridgeport, j. +. Smith;
Buck Greek, F.Brewer: Cadott. F. Hamlin;
City Point. D.. NJ. King; Houlton, A. Lerue;
Lodi, j. Mills; Leland. +. c. Klipstein;
Reeve. +. f.. Neighbour; Silver Spring, G.
Hammer, Sr.; Stark w. Warn.
Up to this time A railroad companies
have fled with the interstate
commission formal petitions asking to be
relieved from section 4 of the law. Prob
ably as many more have been received
and returned for nurture information. A
much larger number has been received from
trade organizations, private corporations
and individuals, protesting against the
suspension OF section A 10 particular cases.
The queen received at Buckingham palace
the corporation OF London, which called
by appointment to present a jubilee ad-
dress OF behalf Of the city. In response,
the queen, alter giving thanks, said: 1t
gives me great satisfaction to recall how
much OF the prosperity of my reign is ow-
feeling of my sabjects-the sympathy unit
ing throne and prople. / trust this cordial
sympathy may remain unbrokeu.
Samuel II .Nieols, ex-elerk otthe Supreme
court Of st. Paul, has arrived at Great
Falls, Montana, to act as secretary and
treasurer OF the ~toxnsite company. Par
ties who have handled 2, 900 horses lately
report no loss on the ranges from the Sc
we're winter. Wheat sown on bench lands
for experimental purposes is above ground
and growing finely.
Bishop Ireland Of Minnesota arrived at
New York on the 9th from a somewhat
prolonged visit to Rome.
II. Fl. Porter and Senator Sabin both
bring out plans for the reorganization OF
the Northwestern Car Company.
The oldest man in Stephenson county, If
not in Illinois, died at his home in Oncco
township. Had he lived until July 20, Mr..
Smith would have been I02 years old.
Increased acreage in Minnesota and
Dakota indicates a total wheat crop this
year OF over so, 900, 600 bushels.
j. ID. Martin. lately acquitted OF murder
in st. Paul, died OF infammatory rheuma-
tism in Iowa.
THERE'S a disposition in army circles to
protest against the proposed transfer OF
regiments between posts, which is to take
place early in the summer, but as these
protests are common to each years ex-
change in a greater or less degree the war
department is not giving them much at
t~ention. The truth Is. that officers who
have been serving on tours oil duty in the
South get each year a growing dislike Of
the rigorous winters OF the extreme North
west and every wire OF personal strength
or party influence is pulled to insure their
retention in the South and Southwest or
attached to the division OF the East.
Senator Mcpherson OF New Jersey is
positive that Cleveland viii be renomi-
mated, accept and be elected.
The earnings Of the Illinois Central road
Tor April were S904, 354, an increase OF
SS6,294 over April 1856.
One OF the q~uietest and least ostenta-
tious OF New York millionaires is Elias 5.
Higgins. who has made $40, 600, 900 sell
ing carpets.
The jury in the case Of W. T. Lavelle, the
Panhandle road brakeman, on trial for
robbing freight cars, returned a verdict OF
guilty ut Pittsburg. J.C. Dunlap, another
OF the alleged THE yes, was then called up
for trial. and pleaded guilty.
Gen. Aron Fletcher Stevens. a prominent
citizen aud lawyer OF New Hampshire. died
at Nashua. His death was caused by kid
ney difficulty, arising from wounds received
ir the battle of Petersburg.
Squire Stoier OF Sterling, KY, who liber-
ated Corneilson, serving a sentence for
assault on Judge Reid, has beea arrested
for unlawfully aiding the escape OF a pris-
oner.
The following patents have been issued:
Wisconsin,. I. Roberts. River Falls,
trunk; E. c. Bower, Milwaukee, cell case;
G.. w. Burehard, Fort Atkinson. scale; r.
Hatch, La Crosse, nut lock; T. G. Mandt,
Stoughton, vehicle axle; L. d. Mihillis,
Fond du Lac, label cabinet; N. H.. Mosher,
Eau Claire, artificial ton G. Poppert.